The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-20

HCIL TO DECIDE WHAT
ETS 1T WILL IMPROVE.

Get and Lane Committee to
1T Report at the Next Meeting
Aerman Duncan's Sewer Ordi-
zee Passed Other Matters Before
Juncil.
fhe Governors approval of the street
Avng act puts the City Council in a
position to go ahead at once with the inn
/provement of the streets Alderman
4 Thomas submitted a copy of the new law to
IN the City Council last night Whatever
III paving is to be done, he said, ought to be
II under way at the earliest possible moment
The Council has a good many things to CON
slider; it must decide what streets are to
be paved, what kind of pavement is to be
put down and various other matters.
Alderman Thomas moved that the Com
mittee on Streets and Lanes be requested to
consider and report TO Council at the earliest
practicable date the propriety and cost to
the city and the owners of abutting prop
erty, of paving the roadway of the follow
ing streets, under the new law:
STREETS IN NEED OF PAVING.
River street from West Broad to Water
street.
Wadley street from River to Bay street,
and Bay from Savannah and Ogeechee
canal to Wadley street with graywacke or
granite blocks
Liberty street. width of thirty feet from
Wheaton to West Broad.
Anderson. from Drayton to Cemetery, a
width of twenty feet, with graywacke, or
granite blocks asphaltum.
New Houston, from Drayton to Whitaker,
width of thirty feet with asphatum
Broughton, from Abercorn to East Broad
The motion was carried and the
fnittee will submit Its report at the next
meeting of Council
SEWER CONNECTIONS.
Alderman Duncan's ordinance requiring
the connection of water closets with sewers
came up on its second reading, and after
amendment was adopted. Tho limit of
time fixed for making the connections pro
vided for by the ordinance is March l. 1889.
There was a lively debate over the passage
of the ordinance
Alderman Nell opposed it on the ground
of the already too small sewer outlets. Two
thirds of the city sewerage system, he said,
has its outlet in the Bilbo canal. To enforce
the provisions of the proposed ordinance
would embrace three times as many closet
connections as there are at present. He
believed that the move is good one if the
city were only prepared for it, but it is not
and will not be until the sewerage system is
provided with larger outlet than it now
has. The city also contemplates he said, the
adoption of the Warning system of
house drainage, and when this is done the
work done under the ordinance offered by
Alderman Duncan viii simply have to be
undone.
THE CITIZENS WANT 1T.
Alderman Duncan said that he introduced
the ordinance in obedience to the request Of
large number of citizens who will be bene-
fitted by its provisions. As to the Warning
system, its adoption he considered a matter
of the remote future. The cost of the sys-
TEN being from S150,000 to 100000 he felt
safe in saying that il will be a good many
years before it will be adopted
The necessity for some relief
in the meantime is urgent, and
the ordinance offords it.
The passage of the ordinance re- |
quires all property owners located |
at not exceeding a block from a |
public sewer to connect with it, and it for
bids the of vaults. In case of neglect on
the part of property owners to make the
connection the city will do it and the cost
will be levied upon the property. March l. |
1889, is the limit of time within which the |
work must be done
THE STREET RAILROADS PETITION.
A petition from the Savannah Street and |
Rural Resort Railroad Company for per-
mission to lay its tracks through certain |
streets in the eastern part of the city was
referred to the Street and Lane Committed
petition from the Georgia Infirmary
Ladies Aid Association, asking the city to
lay awater main to the Infirmary, was re-
ferred to the Water Committee.
Alderman Duncan moved the appoint
ment of special committee to arrange ad-
hitional quarantine facilities at the station
by providing additional moorings, the inn
provement not to exceed in cost $780, The
motion was adopted.
number of other matters of minor in
terest came before the Council, running the
session until after 10 o'clock before an adj
journment reached.
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